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Anna Jarvis: The Founder of Mother’s Day Who Fought to Have it Abolished
Culture & Social Affairs

Anna Jarvis: The Founder of Mother’s Day Who Fought to Have it Abolished

1 - Mother’s Day was commemorated thanks to a relentless and spirited campaign by social activist Anna Jarvis (1864-1948) to make it a national…

Majalla 29 March , 2019
Member of the Chatto family from the documentary film “One Yazidi Family vs ISIS”
Politics

Breaking Decades of Silence on Kurdish Persecution

Kurdistan was erased from the world's maps after World War I when the victorious powers drew up the borders of the modern Middle East, denying the…

Yasmine El Geressi 29 March , 2019
Poverty spreading across Tehran and other major cities.
Politics

The End of the Road for the Iranian Regime

According to Iranian regime officials selling organs has become an everyday occurrence. However, there’s more to this story than meets the eye and…

Rawshan Qassem 29 March , 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the U.S. Capitol alongside U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) (R) before joining Senate Republicans for their weekly policy luncheon March 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty)
Politics

A Two-Year Probe into Russia-Trump Collusion Finds None

In May 2017, the U.S. Attorney General’s office authorized a sweeping counterintelligence investigation into Russian government interference in…

Joseph Braude 29 March , 2019
US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) ahead of their meeting in New York, United States on September 21, 2017. (Getty)
Politics

The Deal to End All Deals

The Trump Administration continues to say that it intends to come out with its peace plan soon, presumably after the April 9th Israeli election. How…

Dennis Ross 29 March , 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun (R) at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut on March 22, 2019. (Getty)
Politics

Lebanon’s Tough Choice

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s warning to Lebanon was controversial, as expected. It came amidst two major events. The night prior to his Beirut…

Hanin Ghaddar 29 March , 2019
National Security Advisor John Bolton (L) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (R) answer questions from reporters during a press briefing at the White House January 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty)
Politics

Iran Under Pressure From Multiple Vectors

NEW ROUND OF US SANCTIONSTARGETS IRANIAN COMPANIES On March 26, following weeks of warnings by senior Trump administration…

Joseph Braude 29 March , 2019
An Afghan farmers harvests opium sap from a poppy field in Zari District in Kandahar province on April 9, 2018. (Getty)
Politics

Helmand’s Flower That Threatens Us All

A peace deal inAfghanistanmay be on the horizon. The latest round of high-level negotiations betweenthe United Statesand theTalibanended last week…

Matthew S. Reid and Cybele C. Greenberg 31 March , 2019
A clear symbol in one of Donetsk's park of DPR's inclination toward Russia. The War in Donbass region of eastern Ukraine has caused at least at least 10,000 deaths and 1.4 million people displaced from the home since the start of the conflict in March 2014. (Getty)
Politics

Is the Risk of Ethnic Conflict Growing in Ukraine?

The Ukrainian presidential election is only weeks away, and its outcome is highly uncertain. PresidentPetro Poroshenkois lagging in the polls…

Elise Giuliano 01 April , 2019
The planet Earth painted on the face of a female participant to protest against climate change. (Getty)
Politics

Educate to Liberate

A populist wave is sweeping the Western world. InAustria,Hungary,Italy andPoland populist parties and candidates have entered the government…

Carla Norrlof 31 March , 2019
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Iranians mark 40 days since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes at a demonstration in Tehran on 9 April, 2026. Majid Asgaripour / AFP
Politics

The US and Iran mull next moves amid shaky truce

10 April 2026

Washington weighs the desire to avoid a protracted war with offsetting the appearance of defeat, as Tehran debates whether to consolidate gains before conditions shift or press perceived advantages

Alex Vatanka
Awami Rickshaw Union workers holding posters of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shout slogans after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in Lahore on 8 April 2026. Arif ALI / AFP
Politics

Behind the truce: Pakistan mediation proves pivotal

08 April 2026

Islamabad is humming with behind-the-scenes diplomacy to turn this tentative pause into lasting peace.

Kaswar Klasra
Al Majalla
Politics

5 unanswered questions on the US-Iran ceasefire

09 April 2026

The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

John Haltiwanger
Al Majalla
Politics

The US-Iran war tanked Trump's popularity at home

07 April 2026

Instead of the "no endless wars" they were promised, Americans were thrown into a disastrous war and were feeling the economic pinch at the gas pump

Brian Katulis
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shake hands during a session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on 29 March 2026. Reuters
Politics

Palestinian executions are now official Israel policy

08 April 2026

Israel's parliament approved a draconian death penalty law last week that only applies to Palestinian prisoners, in a move that the UN says "would constitute a war crime"

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly

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